by Steve Railsback | Apr 14, 2023 | News
The Ecological Society of America announced that Volker Grimm is the 2023 winner of the Robert Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, which is presented every two years to an outstanding non-American ecologist. The award statement noted Volker’s contributions...
by Steve Railsback | Apr 3, 2023 | News
CoMSES Net, the Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences,is making training materials for good software practices available. Modules are now available on: Responsible practices for scientific software, Introduction to Git and Github, and...
by Steve Railsback | Jun 7, 2021 | News
Students of the Uta Berger’s 2018 Summer School in Agent-based Modeling–Cara Gallagher, Magda Chudzinska, Angela Larsen-Gray, Christopher Pollock, Sarah Sells, and Patrick White–just published practical guidance on pattern-oriented modeling (POM) in...
by Steve Railsback | Jul 3, 2020 | News
A new article in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation provides updated guidance on the ODD protocol for describing and developing agent-based models. A supplement to the article provides detailed guidance on each element of ODD, including specific...
by Steve Railsback | Jun 3, 2020 | News
The new book Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals is now for sale from Princeton University Press. This book, by Steven Railsback and Bret Harvey, is in the Princeton Monographs in Population Biology series. The publisher’s web site is here. The book...
by Steve Railsback | Sep 7, 2017 | News
We and colleagues recently published a journal article showing that, contrary to widespread belief, NetLogo is well-suited and computationally efficient for large and complex scientific models. The article provides techniques for finding and eliminating slow parts of...
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